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When an aging maintenance worker goes on a killing rampage in an apartment complex, an unsuspecting man looking for an apartment takes the fall. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby  Mike Bevins
A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
What If God Was One Of Us?by  Adam Rocke
God assumes the guise of a homeless man to check in on humanity.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wolf Riderby  Pelham Mead III
This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.

Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Distancedby  Barry Staff
Wanting to transmit her hallucinatory virus worldwide (contagion bringing universal accord solving global issues), a brainiac needs to persuade two skeptical colleagues to join her endeavour.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After losing her job as a software programmer, a middle-aged woman reinvents herself as a Customs Broker in Miami, navigating the challenges of a new career while facing financial pressures.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Higher Educationby  Candy Fox
A college professor tries everything - including an exaggerated strip club dance - to get her zoned out, laptop focused students to pay attention, but to no avail.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A cell phone with his hand is stuck to a man's ear. After frantic attempts to loosen it fail, a mysterious 'Voice' comes on the line to help find a solution.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bob and Jackby  Doug J Robbins
Bob and Jack need money, and Bob obtains it through humorous means.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seeing Redby  Warren Lane
In this dark comedy a wannabe serial killer who faints at the sight of blood gets advice from his three equally pathetic buds during their weekly zoom session.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Influencerby  Tom Miller
A hopeful influencer moves to Hollywood to find success, but winds up in a battle royale.

Genre: Comedy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A power engineer must fight for his life after a zombie horde chases him into the pylons high above the ground.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The King of Cornby  Jason K. Allen
Hopelessly lost in a corn maze, a young couple are rescued by a mystery man who bears a striking resemblance to the king of rock'n'roll. (Comic fable. 1 location, 3 characters. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Float Swim Dreamby  Jason K. Allen
A sad and lonely goldfish dreams of escaping his fish bowl so that he can fight zombies, halt global warming and meet Justin Bieber. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a lonely old man visits his beloved wife's grave for the first time, he encounters a charming little girl who lifts him out of his doldrums and fills him with hope. (Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
At a bus stop, three strangers unknowingly stand at the crossroads of eternity as heaven's angels investigate their lives, revealing how faith, temptation, and free will determine who will be written into the Lamb's Book of Life.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby  John Boal
A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Knockby  Dewayne
After his young daughter's death, a guilt-ridden father begins hearing three knocks at his door every night at 2:12 AM. When the voice outside belongs to the child he left to die, he realizes something supernatural has learned her voiceand it won't stop knocking until he lets it inside.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby  LaKesa Cox
A woman in her 40s has a pregnancy scare only to find out through a meeting with Mother Nature that she's about to start menopause.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blood, White, And Blueby  Antoine Mizel
Set in a future where the families of murder victims are legally sanctioned to face those convicted in a 3-minute death match, an apprehensive, yet determined couple, faces off with their daughter's killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dragomir and the Ieleby  camelia dinu
While Dragomir stumbles upon the enchanting dance of the iele mysterious forest spirits from Romanian lore fascination quickly turns to terror. Trapped between irresistible beauty and deadly magic, he must fight to resist their spell or be claimed forever by the darkness.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A quirky and neurotic art student, confined to her apartment, must overcome her condition to be with the love of her life.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gift Challengeby  Leandrew Baillum
A global social-networking game becomes a worldwide phenomenon, offering players million, dollar prizes and televised luxury gift draws, only to evolve into a powerful cultural movement uniting communities in a stand against gun violence.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
During her lunch break, an uptight business woman who's having a bad day decides to go for a frolic in a field. Unfortunately, she has never frolicked before and can't quite get the hang of it. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Winds of Kandaharby  PAUL BYRNE
Racing the clock on 9/11, a two-fisted female private eye goes head-to-head with a terrorist sleeper cell and risks everything to save the Pentagon on that fateful day.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
To save her Maui Blue Tours business from a litigious ex-husband, a precision pilot stages a fake mid-air "cartel money drop" that spirals into absurdity when her cat parachutes into a remote valley and is declared a living goddess by a secluded mountain tribe.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby  Elliot Stanton
Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Darker Side of Goodnessby  John Porter
A horror/dark comedy/Halloween script based on Cheryl Pierson's short story in which a young man meets a demon who offers him the chance to see whether his wife really does love him.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Crystal Eggby  Maroun Rached
A cheeky female telemarketer tries to sell online a crystal egg statuette to a middle-aged recluse man.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chicken Crossingby  Nathan M. Scrivens
A determined Chicken endures a series of humorous challenges in his quest to cross a road and reach a tempting apple.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby  Slobodan D. Pesic
A timid man visits a futuristic government agency where every human desire can be fulfilled. What begins as a simple request for a pair of sneakers spirals into an absurd chain of wishes exposing the fragile machinery of modern happiness and the divine comedy of human ambition.

Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shrouded by Shadowby  Hutira Gábor
Ryu Hayashi, a skilled ninja of the Shadow Syndicate, one day he is tasked with a mission to eliminate a thief, only to discover that the thief is just a poor man who stole vegetables to feed his starving family. Rejecting the mission, Ryu is marked as a rogue and must fight for his life against his former allies, facing the consequences of his decision.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Change the F*cking Nameby  Christopher Harmon
A fearless Indigenous teen, intent on restoring the dignity of his people, goes on a mystical vision quest...only to find the legendary Jim Thorpe as his guide and mentor. Jim reinforces the young man's determination to end the racial slur that is the name of a Washington sports team and he champions a movement - that eventually succeeded.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spitball Newsby  John Boal
At a new TV program called "Spitball News," Sophie Straight, a bad-ass 20s News Anchor, shreds her two male reporters with shade on their fragile egos. As the show ends, the GM bursts onto the set to fire Sophie for losing advertisers. Yet Sophie convinces her GM to save the show while he shares about the abusive males in his family and how men must learn to be caring humans first and males second.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Told You Soby  S.C. Smith
A once-successful cryptocurrency investor, Michael Tanner, finds his empire destroyed overnight by a devastating crash, leading him into a spiraling journey of regret, desperation, and the harsh realization that the pursuit of wealth may have cost him everything that truly mattered.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Death Sentenceby  Brian Jackson
In a stark cell, a guilt-ridden man haunted by visions of his mother, bride, and daughter must utter the command that becomes humanity's death sentence.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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